A trigonometric tablet, 3,700 years old is now being
revisited and studied because that old clay tablet
shows evidence of an understanding of trigonometry
1,000 years before it was previously thought to be
understood.
Thank you INDIA for giving us the number "0" for
without "0" we would not have 01 or 10 and binary,
so thanks to India for Binary! Before India created
zero, binary was not possible.
Now we just noticed that the Babylonians studied
trigonometry very long ago, before the Greeks.
We call this Trigonometry "Base 60", instead of
base 10. There are advantages to the base 60
math VS. base 10 math. It is easier to deal in
multiples of three and Base 60 is easier to compare
to a clock and measurement of time.
Can a 60 second and sixty minute clock be applied
to our world in any other way?
Albert Einstein believed in a close connection
between time and space so much that he thought
of time and space as one single fabric or the
continuum of space-time.
Base 60 math appears to be more efficient with
certain types of calculations than base 10, which
could be characterized as the metric system.
What would we call the Base 60 system based on
the 3,700 year old tablet it was found on?
Let's study the Akkadian language which was
spoken all over Babylon and Mesopotamia at the
time to find out and learn more about the
base 60 (base-60) math.
First let's look at base 60 math:
Plymtom 322 (Plimton-322?)
Base 60 math can describe the Pythagorian theorem.
Examples include:
1/3 = 20, 1/4 = 15, 1/5 = 12, 1/8 = 7.30
Questions:
- Does Base-sixty math seem usefull to you?
- Does this base sixty math make a difference in century 21?
- Trigonometry enthusiasts, are we on to something relevent?
- Is the 3,700 year old Babylonian TRIG. tablet meaningless?
- Can YOU apply base-60 math to reality?
- Is base 60 mathematics usefull?